Peotry Terms
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- Poetry
- Literary work written in metrical form that is a genre of literature.
- Form
- The way a poem looks- the arrangment of words on the page.
- Lines
- Poems are made of lines which may or may not be sentences.
- Stanza
- A nuber of lines that divide a poem into sections. A group of lines in a poem.
- Free Verse
- Form of poetry with no pattern or form. Does not ryhme portrays images or feelings.
- Concrete
- A poem written in the shape of something that visually reinforces the meaning.
- Onamatopoeia
- Use of words that imitate sounds.
- Rhyme
- The repetion of words at the end of words.
- Meter
- A rhythmic pattern that is repeated.
- Repetion
- The use of sounds, words, or phrases that is repeated.
- Alliteration
- The repetition of consonats sounds at the beginning of two or more words.
- Imagery
- The use of words pictures in writing to make a descriptive, vivid idea through colorful language.
- Similie
- A comparison of two unlike things using "like or as".
- Metaphor
- Comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like or "as".
- Personification
- Giving an inanimate object life like qualities.
- Verse
- A line of metrical writing (one of the lines of a poem).
- Hyperbole
- An exaggeration
- Abstract
- A term used to describe a word like "freedom or "honesty".
- Lyrical
- Personal and descriptive poetry with no particular length. This form could be words to a song.
- Couplet
- Two lines that end with words that rhyme.
- Foot
- Each group of stresses with a line of poetry.
- Rhyme Scheme
- A pattern of end rhyme in a stanza or poem. Pattern is charted by assigning a letter of the alphebet beginning with "A". Lines that rhyme are given the next letter.
- Rhythm
- A Beat or Pattern of sound created by stressed or unstressed syllables. A poems rhythm is sometimes called it's beat.
- Symbolism
- Using an object to represent an idea.